• Darius Görgen
• B.A. Political Sciences & B.Sc. Geography @University of Marburg
• M.Sc. thesis: Predicting violent conflict induced by environmental changes
• Passionate about OpenSource, OpenData, OpenScience with R and Python
• slides @https://github.com/goergen95/clca

• ICARDA’s project on conservation agriculture

• some basics of remote sensing

• exploring available data sets

• outline the work to be done

• ongoing ICARDA project (2018 - 2022) financed by an IFAD grant of 2.5 Mio. USD

• implementation of conservation agriculture practices to increase water use efficiency, soil protection and income

• ICARDA expressed interest in using RS technologies for ongoing M&E of key indicators of the project

• in the future: modeling of impacts on water balance and biomass productivity on water basin scale

Conservation agriculture (CA)

adapted from FAO (2017)

• 180 Mio. ha (12.5%) of global cropland under CA practices in 2015 (Kassam et. al (2018))
• criticism was expressed about the impact of CA on smallholder farms (Giller et. al (2015))

Source: Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing & Processing

Source: NASA

Source: Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing & Processing

Source: ESA

Source: Saab (2003)

Source: USGS

Source: ESA

• spectral resolution
• spatial resolution
• temporal resolution

Source: FAO WaPOR

Source: FAO (2020)

Source: FAO (2020)